Why Johnny Can’t Read – Rudolf Flesch
Metaphors We Live By – Lakoff & Johnson
A Room of Their Own – Mary Wollstonecraft
Son of a Witch – Greg Maguire
The Bluest Eyes – Toni Morrison
Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone – Fleischer & Andrew
Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings – Bernard Mandeville
Nights in Rodanthe – Nicholas Sparks
When and Where I Enter – Paula Giddings
Orientalism – Edward Said (I’ve only read excerpts…)
The Dignity of Working Men – Michele Lamont
The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
Me: Stories of My Life – Katharine Hepburn
Aeneid – Translated by John Dryden, I have a copy 🙂
Blaze – Steven King writing as Richard Bachman
Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative – Mieke Bal
The Rhetoric of Religion – Kenneth Burke
There’s more, but I have to get moving, I have more to-do lists.
January 19, 2012
truebloodcreator
truebloodcreator 
5 responses to “Reading List: to-do”
Derek
January 19th, 2012 at 17:44
Are any of these tied to coursework, Dawn? We read Lakoff and Johnson last semester in ENGL505: Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and we’re likely to pick it up again in that class in the fall, for what it’s worth.
truebloodcreator
January 19th, 2012 at 19:24
Professor,
I’m not certain if they’re on your syllabus, but I’m sure a few would tie into our coursework. It’s basically a list of theorists that I would like to read more of, and several other texts in which I have accumulated over the past few years. They’re my summer reading list, but I need to find a very extended summer to get started on them. I’ve been plugging away at a few, or as many as I can read in three months. Books manage to evoke the same thrill as shoes and bags do for me….I need a closet for shoes, bags, and books. I also need more reading time, but I suppose like most things we tend to desire: everything in moderation.
joetorok
January 23rd, 2012 at 15:51
Metaphors We Live By was/is an incredibly enriching book for me. I first encountered it in a comparative religion class as an undergrad and have found conceptual metaphor theory applicable to so many of my intellectual interests. (In a similar vein, I also found Stewart Guthrie’s Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion enriching as well.)
truebloodcreator
January 23rd, 2012 at 17:03
Thanks for the feedback Joe! I’m really looking forward to finding the time to get to these texts.
Derek
January 23rd, 2012 at 17:59
I just received a copy of a book on metaphor by James Geary, I Is An Other. I assume Harper Collins saw I’d been teaching Metaphors We Live By and sent me a complimentary copy of the Geary book. I haven’t had time to look at it much beyond the index, but from what I’ve seen it looks promising.